Few people left out in the cold

Volunteers brave weather to do homeless tally

3:14 AM,
Jan. 29, 2014

Tina Wolfe, right, and Mary Preston, carrying Blessing Bags filled with blankets, gloves and socks, trek through a wooded area behind Shawnee Square on Tuesday in search of people who are homeless during the annual Point-in-Time Count.

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Mary Preston and Tina Wolfe followed a set of snowy footprints leading into the woods behind a Shawnee Square store Tuesday, expecting they might lead to a camp for people who are homeless.

The area is just one of at least a dozen spots that homeless people are known to camp out, but the footprints led them in a semicircle back up to the driveway.

Preston and Wolfe were two of more than two dozen volunteers who braved Tuesday's brutally low temperatures to count the local people who are homeless. Efforts began at 4 a.m. Tuesday and continued until midnight as part of the statewide Point-in-Time ...